I PUT mint 13 on my computer yesterday and it immediately paniced after
entering my password. So I went back to mint 12. After upgrading the kernel
there are no issues with mint 12. And if I didn't need to run it off of
battery I wouldn't need to upgrade the kernel.
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I out mint 13 on my computer yesterday and it immediately paniced after
> entering my password. So I went back to mint 12. After upgrading the kernel
> there are no issues with mint 12. And if I didn't need to run it off of
> battery I wouldn't need to put the newer kernel in.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Wayne Davis <waydavis.phx.lists@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Loaded Mint 13 Maya on a drive last night. Looks A LOT like Zorin.
>> Going to play with mint & Zorin for a bit. They both look promising for a
>> winbabes.
>>
>> although Ylmf looked promising, my friend's machine, who this is all
>> about, is nearly new hardware (1 yr)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 07/05/2012 01:35 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>
>>> From a new user perspective, mint (or others) may be better
>>> out-of-install, but a lack of features like install methods for
>>> raid/lvm/crypto functions just tell me its immature or a sub-grade
>>> knock-off. I'm not an enterprise, just security aware and conscious of
>>> mtbf on drives to want/expect enterprise features (it *is* linux still),
>>> and more people should too (especially when mint uses ubuntu as a base
>>> already).
>>>
>>> I'd rather just use ubuntu as the distro without unity on it as a base
>>> and get general industry support, especially for video driver blob support
>>> as it and fedora/cent are the standard vendors are willing to support.
>>>
>>> I'd like to see what kind of experience mint users have with
>>> dist-upgrades as well. Something tells me if canonical isn't catching the
>>> big things that break the os, Mint isn't going to either.
>>>
>>> As for windoze-y linuxes, this odd distro is still going... Remembered
>>> this from years ago that looked waaay too much like windoze if that's what
>>> you're looking for:
>>>
>>> http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.**html <http://www.ylmf.org/en/index.html>
>>>
>>> It *is* based on 10.04 LTS, so at least you get some software support,
>>> and hopefully not just odd tcp socket connections back to chinese ip
>>> addresses.
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/05/2012 07:39 AM, Kenn wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been having pretty good results with Linux Mint Maya v13 using the
>>>> MATE desktop for the last week or so now. I don't run the newest fastest
>>>> hardware. I was a big Ubuntu fan for the longest time, but I just cannot
>>>> warm up to the Unity desktop on a desktop PC, although it's OK on my
>>>> netbook with a small screen. Gnome3 desktop wasn't working out for me
>>>> either. The last straw was updating Ubuntu to 12.04 and it hosed up two
>>>> machines. Sure, a fresh install likely would have worked, but I was due
>>>> for a new desktop. Just my two cents.
>>>>
>>>> distrowatch.org is good reference for selecting a distro best for you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Ken
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --- On *Thu, 7/5/12, Wayne Davis /<waydavis.phx.lists@gmail.com**>/*
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a distro that works well for people weaned off
>>>> Winblows. So far, school's out for this one, but i'm giving it a
>>>> chance for a while for it to grow on me so to speak.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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